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Villa Romana del Casale

Roman · Italy

Field notes

civilizations: Roman
types: Palace
occupied: 300 CE — 400 CE
visitors: 352,220 / year
country: Italy

The site

The Villa Romana del Casale is a large and elaborate Roman villa or palace near Piazza Armerina in Sicily, dating to the early 4th century CE. Its glory is its floors: mosaic and opus sectile pavements covering some 3,500 square meters, called the richest and most varied Roman collection to survive. A landslide and floods buried and so preserved them, and frescoes once covered even the exterior walls. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, it draws over 350,000 visitors a year.

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